National Affairs: In Chicago

Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as
whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern
University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and
pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and
hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large
last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well.

Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope
piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug,
shot him dead....